Spool-holder.



S. WERTHEIMER. SPOOL HOLDER. APPLIUATION FILED JUNE 25, 1908.

912,341. Patented Feb. 16,1909.

UNITED STATES SAMUEL wna'rnienrnn, or cHIoAco, ILLINOIS.

SPOOL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

Application filed June 25, 1908. Serial No. 440,204.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL WERTHEIMER, a citizen of the United 'States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Spool-Holders, of which the fo owing is a specification.

In clothing factories, several different sizes, colors or qualities of thread. are often needed by each operative, and the spools of thread not in actual use are either kept in a drawer of the sewing machine or some like place, or in a device adapted to hold a plurality of spools of thread in operative position upon t e machine.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide improved means for locking'su'oh a spool-holdin device, in order to revent the unauthorize removal of a spool of thread therefrom.

The invention also relates to the other improvements in spool holders hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a. side elevation of a spool holder embodying the features of my invention, showin the device in position upon a sewing maaiine. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

That embodiment of my invention which-I have chosen for illustration herein comprises i a frame or support 1 having an opening 2 therein adapted to receive the spool-standard A upon the sewing-machine frame A. A set screw 3 extending through the base of the frame and engaging the spool-standard holds said frame from displacement. In the upper ends of the arms 4 of the frame 1 is mounted a shaft 5.

The spool-supporting means comprises, in this instance, a creel consisting of two disks 6 and 7 rigidly attached to the ends of a sleeve Y 8 which is rotatably mounted upon the shaft the pins 11 through the openings 10 consists,

One end ofin the embodiment herein shown, of a disk 13 having a peri heral flange 14 thereon which overlies the e( go of the dlsk 7. Between the disks 7 and 13-is a spacing sleeve 8. Said disk 13 is mounted upon the shaft 5 and is fixed to the frame 1 by any -suitable means, such as a rivet 15. The disk 13 has an opening- 16 therein at the same distance from the shaft 5 as the openings 9 and 10. A keeper 17 is pivoted upon the outer side of the disk 13, saidkeeper having an outwardly-extending erforated ear 18 at its lower end. A simi ar ear 19 is formed u on the upper end of one of the arms 4 of t e funnel. The cars 18 and 19 are intended to receive the shackle of a padlock 20 for locking the keeper 17 against movement to expose the opening 16.

In use, the device is placed upon the spool-standard of a sewing machine, with the side plates 6 and 7 of thc'creel exten ing longitudinally of the machine, and is made rigid with said standard by tightening up the set screw 3. When it is desired to place a spool upon one of the pins 11, the creel is rotated to bring the pin into register with the opening 16. The lock 20 having been opened, the keeper. 17 is swung aside, and the pin 11 slid out .through the opening 16. By pushing upon the projecting rear end of the pin, the-latter may be. moved through the disk' 13 far enough to permit of gras ing said in with thefingers. A spool of t read is t en laced between the side plates 6 and 7 of t e creel, with the hole in said spool in register with the openings 9, 10 and 16, and the pin 11 returned to. its

lace. The opening 16 is then closed by the eeper 17 and the latter locked in The process of removing a spool invo ves a reversal of the order of the steps just described.

I have herein described one embodiment of my invention in detail, without lntending 10!) thereby, however, to limit myself to thee):- act construction 'shown and described, or to the uses herein set forth.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a spool holder, in combination, a 105 frame; a creel mounted in said frame, the

spool-supporting pins of said creel being withdrawable from said creel; and a disk adjacent one of the sides of said creel, said disk having an opening therein adapted to rogis- 110 ter with the pins in said creel.

2. In a spool-holder, in combination, a I

lace.

frame; a creel mounted in said frame, the

spool-supporting pins of said creel being Withdrawable from said creel; a disk adjacent one of the sides of said creel, said disk frame; a creel mounted in said frame, the

spool-supporting pins of said creel being withdrawable from said creel; a disk adjacent one of the sides of said creel, said disk having an opening therein adapted to register with the pins in said creel; means for closing the openingin said disk; and'nicans for locking said closing means.

4. In a spool holder, in combination, a frame; a creel mounted'in said frame and comprising side plates and longitudinally withdrawable spool-:Su porting pins; a disk adjacent one of the si e lates of said creel; and a flange on said iskoverlying said plate, said disk havmg an opening therein adapted to register with the pins in said cree said disk.

and means for closing the opening in 5'. In a s ool holder, in combination, a

supporting rame means for preventing r0- tation of said frame; a shaft fixed in said lying one of said disks, said plate having an opening therein adapted to register with the openings insaid dlsks; means for closing said opening in said plate; and means for locking said, closing means in place over said opening. Y n

SAMUEL WERTHEIMER. Witnesses:

LUTHER L. MILLER, ERNEST U. SOHROETER. 

